Engaging conversations Quotes

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

Talk to people, not above them.

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

It was the first thing I learned when I started. An old boss said to me, 'Your job is to reflect interest, not to create it.' And what I've taken from that is, if you're not talking about things people are interested in, then they're going to find someone who is. It's not any more complicated than that. But if you forget it, you won't have a show for very long.

Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.